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{UPDATE} Anna Heaths website 13 March 2006
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donstobbart
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 		{UPDATE} Anna Heaths website 13 March 2006
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Proof of Life
Monday, 13th March 2006

Thank you for the very kind messages you've been sending me. I can't say they've helped me come to any great revelations, but it's nice to know someone outside my own family thinks I've still got a brain in my head. Certain parties have whispered to me that Kurt has been involved in some unsavoury activities of late, and suggested a course of blackmail. I find it hard to believe that Kurt McAllister - my Kurt, pure as a cloud in the sky - could be up to such tricks. I do admit that it would explain his vehemence in our conversation last week. A guilty conscience might indeed cause him to lash out in just such a way. Still, I don't have the heart to confront and coerce one of my own team-members, for a just cause or no.

I've suggested we meet for a cup of coffee after work this evening, to perhaps get a second chance at convincing him to help me in a less underhanded way, but he hasn't yet agreed. If he doesn't, I simply don't know what I'll do.

At any rate, I spent this weekend with my family, trying to let go of everything that's happened, but it didn't help. I suppose this shouldn't come as a surprise. When you've had a friend for twenty years, you can find reminders every place you look. I rest my head on Fleming's shoulder, and remember the day Isaac sent him to tea with me because Isaac "wasn't feeling well." The liar.

Or I look at Eve and remember Isaac giving her his mother's silver bracelet as a birth gift, gruffly informing me that he had "no personal use for the thing." Everywhere I look is something else just like that filled to spilling with memory - books he'd recommended, trophies he'd urged me to compete for, little trinkets he'd given to one or another of us. Letting go wasn't working, so I thought perhaps I should just wallow in my grief for a bit and see if that helped, instead.

So early Sunday evening, I went over to the library and let myself into Isaac's office. It's been locked all of this time, so it was still exactly the way he left it. A mess, of course. Isaac always had a keen intellect, but orderly he never was. I used to joke that without his cleaners coming every Thursday afternoon, his home would suffocate him under an avalanche of the accretion of life. He always complained that come Friday morning he couldn't find anything he needed, though, and so he chased away cleaners from his office in the library as routinely as he could manage it.

Isaac's office, then, was just exactly the way he always left it; a complete and utter disaster. There was a small pile of mostly-empty noodle cartons, thankfully dried up rather than smelly, sitting on the floor by his desk, and on every surface precarious towers of books, notes, documents; all the paper of his work. Dust, of course, covering everything to a greater or lesser degree.

In the middle of his desk, in a lonely clear spot, was his list of things he'd intended to attend to the following Monday: a meeting with Anja Marlowe from the museum in the morning; some sensitive acquisitions for the library that needed following up; some notes on a major restoration project he'd been considering; a bit of chicken-scratch about Violet and Anthony Granier's diary.

I just stared at that page, this proof that he had plans for living at least another few days, and I started to cry and cry. I don't know if Kurt would take this as any sort of proof, but I folded up the list and tucked it into my bag, and I'm going to try to show it to him today as all the evidence I've been able to muster. Men planning on killing themselves don't tend to draw out their agendas for subsequent days, do they? It seems so mundane, but so expectant. It carries with it a basic assumption that life will continue as normal.

I sorted myself out eventually, of course, and put on a brave face when I went home and tucked the little ones into bed, but even this morning my head is sore and my eyes feel unpleasantly puffy. Garnet and Aiko have both taken me aside and asked if perhaps I should take the day off, but I think working may take my mind off things for a while. Although I do still find myself staring at the wall in my interstitial moments, trying to make sense of Isaac's death, trying to puzzle out how I can live with this sorrow if I can't work toward justice.

Oh, and one last thing - some of you have been asking me about a missing page of Anthony Granier's diary. I think the document you're so keen on was returned to me from the police under my authority as a fellow at the Academy. As far as I can tell, the thing is indecipherable. It's really incredible how much hand-written script has changed in so little time. I left the document locked up in Isaac's office after I left yesterday.



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 		So Anna got the page in the diary. Should we ask her to transcribe it for us, even though she cannot make anything of it?

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suggested a course of blackmail

Wow, someone actually tried that?! So, is anyone going to try and pimp Violet now?
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 		|I think we are better off by giving a Violet a poke and letting her know that the diary is in Cymbalisty's office. I'm sure Anna won't mind getting it for her. We could ask Anna to tanscribe it, but shes other things on her mind and Violet would be more willing.
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jojojojo wrote:
|I think we are better off by giving a Violet a poke


* snigger

Jesus Wept. That's pathetic-It's my Birthday btw

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 		But, if it turns out that it was reading the diary page that lead to his death, is encouraging Violet to read it a wise move?
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 		I suppose if Violet read it, and didn't get knocked off then that might lend weight to the Violet=V spec.

Besides, women in movies who play cards are always evil, ergo Violet is evil Smile

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 		Happy Birthday Chris, hope you have had a good day with all the prezzies you could possibley want and more.

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 		Does Anna not know what Cymbalisty was doing with this diary? These people need to talk more! Surely the link has to be made between the decyphering of the diary and the surprise suicide?

I definitely think getting Violet to talk to Anna about this and getting a copy of the diary put up on one of their sites for us to work at is the way forward. If we can get previous pages put up too, with Cymbalisty's english version along side, it shouldn't take too long to suss out what it says?

EDIT: Happy Birthday Chris (Cheap plug BTW Wink)

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 		I am *highly* surprised that Anna Heath, language specialist extraordinaire, can't decipher the diary, or even discern any salient linguistic features besides "hand-written script has changed." I'd be embarrassed if I thought I couldn't attempt to translate a primary source manuscript of Chaucer, or even an old Vulgate Latin Bible or something like that, especially if I were a PhD-equivalent.

Just an aside. That said, I wonder if the page will still be there when someone goes to retrieve it.

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 		I mailed Violet, and told her where the Diary can be found, and suggested that she should talk to Anna. Can't do any harm to get them talking, but I agree that its a bit wierd that Anna can't decipher any of the text in the diary.

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Edit: Serious brain freeze, so spellings changed where necessary!!
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 		I dug around a little on Anja Marlowe and came up with this excerpt from the Sentinal last September:
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But it's no secret that I have an interest in that period of history[the war]. My name is Anja, after all. And I have a personal connection to those people. Our family tradition holds that one of my great-great-and-on-grandmothers was captured and forced into marriage with a military officer. The city has still failed to lay to rest the ghosts of Ilja and Anja.

While it's not exactly strange for Cymbalisty to be meeting with a museum curator, this does play in nicely with my pet theory that the descendents of the survivors of Anjsbourg are taking revenge on the city.

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CoolCats712 wrote:

While it's not exactly strange for Cymbalisty to be meeting with a museum curator, this does play in nicely with my pet theory that the descendents of the survivors of Anjsbourg are taking revenge on the city.


So did Kurt kill Cymbalisty, then? Sarah Covington, his former girlfriend and Gatehouse attendant, also had a curious interest in military history.

(/slight tangent)

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Jakeo wrote:


Besides, women in movies who play cards are always evil, ergo Violet is evil Smile


Violet=To Evil??? or To Live?
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cassandra wrote:
So did Kurt kill Cymbalisty, then? Sarah Covington, his former girlfriend and Gatehouse attendant, also had a curious interest in military history.


I was thinking more along the lines of "Anja" being a (supposedly) traditional name tied to Anjsbourg. Of course, I really have nothing to go on other than pure speculation, and, like you said, we've got more reason to suspect Kurt than some fairly random woman. Hmm... Kurt...

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